Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!splut!jay
From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system (and mkdir)
Message-ID: <353@splut.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 16:47:05 GMT
References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP> <9472@ccicpg.UUCP> <2771@cbdkc1.ATT.COM> <224@intelisc.UUCP>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 15
Keywords: c program
Summary: No, not another repeat_after_me.

In article <224@intelisc.UUCP>, shannon@intelisc.UUCP (Shannon Nelson) writes:
> I may be showing my ignorance, but what ever happened to the mkdir()
> call?  In my manuals (Xenix, sysVr3, Pyramid OSx) [...]
                                   ^^
> [...]  Given this, and the overhead inherent in system(), why are you
> not using mkdir()?

My SVr2 doesn't have it, and I suspect that lots of other Unixes (Unix?
Unices? What _is_ the plural of Unix, anyway?) don't either.

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